Dicranocaris

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Dicranocaris
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 4, 513  Ma [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Arachnomorpha
Genus:† Dicranocaris
Briggs et al., 2008 [2]
Type species
Dicranocaris guntherorum [1] [2]
Briggs et al., 2008 [3]

Dicranocaris is an extinct genus of arachnomorph [1] [2] , possibly a megacheiran [ citation needed ], that lived in the Wheeler Shale formation [4] of what is now modern day Utah [2] during Stage 4 of the Cambrian period, around 513 Ma. [1] It may be synonymous with Dytikosicula [5] , another possible megacheiran.

The type and only species is Dicranocaris guntherorum. [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dicranocaris". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Dicranocaris in the Paleobiology Database
  3. ↑ Dicranocaris guntherorum in the Paleobiology Database
  4. ↑ Hendricks, Jonathan R.; Lieberman, Bruce S. (May 2008). "New phylogenetic insights into the Cambrian radiation of arachnomorph arthropods". Journal of Paleontology. 82 (3): 585–594. doi:10.1666/07-017.1.
  5. ↑ Lerosey-Aubril, Rudy; Skabelund, Jacob (January 2018). "Messorocaris , a new sanctacaridid-like arthropod from the middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation (Utah, USA)". Geological Magazine. 155 (1): 181–186. Bibcode:2018GeoM..155..181L. doi:10.1017/S0016756817000504.
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